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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
...and between cities within the same state.
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I believe Amazon must only charge the state taxes, not the city (or county) taxes. Here in Colorado, Amazon includes tax on my orders, but it is not as high as the tax I would pay buying in a local store. Also, here in Colorado, they usually charge you a tax amount based on where you buy the item. But if you have it delivered, they charge you tax based on the delivery address, not the purchase address. But there must be some additional anomalies regarding this, because I've only seen taxes charged based on delivery address for large items - like home appliances that come on a store delivery truck. If you buy something locally in a store (but they don't have it in stock) and they ship it directly to your home instead, the tax amount appears to be for the purchase location not the delivery location. Being a government thing, it makes little sense and nobody can figure it out - who knows, maybe the tax amount is supposed to be contingent on the color of the shoes you're wearing. That sounds about par for the course where government is involved.